The Linux Foundation Video Site:: Challenges at the Office

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[gparent2]

You're posting this on Linux hosted servers.

[thtrgremlin]

Awesome!!! One thing I suggest, and was anticipating was when they go to break the doughnut, it should have pulled apart into two whole doughnuts. Something like "When you share Linux, Linux shares back". Gratz on being Slashdotted!

[nidaros1112]

I know Ubuntu keeps track of it's user base, however that does not mean the numbers are correct. Would you count me as an Ubuntu user when I have it installed in VMWare? I never use it except for the rare test, I use other UNIX OS' for my work. Question the numbers.

[icgd1337r]

Actually, the Ubuntu users are being counted by a special program, that sends data about updates user had made. So, I am in serious doubt that most of these 8-12 millions are just 'one-day users'.

[borjeboy]

i mean let say that we have 500million computers connected to internet possible more facebook has over 300milion members... and according to that counter its 2% that is linux it would be 10million atleast but then they only count some pages so its note really ture..

anyway what i want to say is that there is over 1million users

[borjeboy]

linux är ganska poppis i sverige.....yes i have heard that but dell has said that it isnt true and according to idg it was infact microsoft who spread that rumor.. and microsoft is good at spreading rumors..

anyway linux has over 1million desktopusers but no one knows for sure how many there are

[nidaros1112]

Novell has no way of knowing that, and that claim is probably not true. Linux is big in *parts* of Europe, especially Eastern Europe. Jeg er norsk, borje.

Did you know that netbooks with Linux actually get returned a whole lot more than those with Windows? So while Dell & Co might sell them, they're not always doing well.

You realize that PCs with Linux or no OS also quite frequently end using pirated copies of Windows? It goes both ways.

W3counter says Linux is 1.97%, Mac OS X is 7.11%

[borjeboy]

btw i hate that i cant change one message but according to w3counters numbers its somewhere around 2% of all computers that surfs internet that use linux

[borjeboy]

and also Dell, zepto and some other computer manufactors sells computers with linux installed they wouldnt do that if people didnt use it

[borjeboy]

well according to novell its over 30million that uses linux everyday.. and that maybe true.. and linux is quite big in Europe (among those advanced pc users that all europeans are:) But if you think about your question you can also say that numbers of windows that being used is wrong because every computer that you buy comes with windows (almost) and then if you format your computer and install linux on it MS still count it as a windows computer

[nidaros1112]

Shuttleworth claimed 8-12m in 2007 as well. And how many of those installations are actually in use? Or get wiped? I have installed Ubuntu on several machines, real and virtual, and removed it again. Even the copies I do have are only opened now and again. Real users or not?

[borjeboy]

Ubuntu had over 8million users when they relesaed ubuntu 8.10 wich is almost a year from now and they have probably continued growing after that